Father Quotes
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At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.
Lou Ferrigno
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
Andra Day
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What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
Lee Grant
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If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
David Cassidy
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My father and brothers were coal miners.
Merle Travis
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I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.
Hafez Nazeri
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As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.
Betsy DeVos
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'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.
Adriano Giannini
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Louis Armstrong is the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.
Nicholas Payton
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Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
Bobby Darin
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The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think of was the nut loaf with yeast gravy that my mother made in the Seventies.
Nell Newman
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If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
Jakob Bohme
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My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
Ali Smith
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My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.
Joel Grey
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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
David Hockney
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Quintilian
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I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.
John Carney
